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It’s been several months since we released our CustomShow iPad app, and we’ve been receiving terrific feedback from our customers. Here are a few success stories we’ve heard:

“Our presentations look beautiful on the iPad!” “The iPad makes it easy to catch someone in a hallway or a restaurant and give them a quick pitch.” “Twice in the past few weeks I have pitched people with our iPad app and they’ve said, ‘I dont normally do this but I’m going to say yes right here in this meeting. We’re definitely going to purchase from you.’ It’s an amazing sales tool and it’s delivering results.” Here are some of the key benefits we built into the app:

• Presentations to look great because of the iPad’s glossy screen and quick response times.
• People can present with or without a network connection, because WiFi and even 3G are often unavailable or slow .
• Presentations to update themselves when new versions are published, so people never need to worry if they’re using the correct slides.
• One person or department can easily manage presentations on hundreds (or even thousands) of iPads.
• Our iPad app supports a projector or second screen for larger meetings.

Download the CustomShow app from iTunes here, and you can find more info on our site. We look forward to hearing about your experience.

We gave a 6-minute presentation at L2′s Innovation Forum on November 5th at the Morgan Library. The title was “Bespoke Presentations” and we focused first on how most corporate presentations don’t live up to the rest of the brand visually. One question to ask is, “Do your company’s presentations look as good as your advertising?”

We also discussed how making presentations look good isn’t enough. Companies need to use technology to make sure that information and brand elements are kept up to date across the organization. Sales teams need to be able to customize presentations for each meeting, and they need to be able to deliver presentations on multiple platforms such as laptop, Web, and iPad. Finally, we showed examples of how we help our customers achieve these goals.

Watch our presentation here, and check out videos of other speakers here.

USA Network: Characters Welcome

USA Network asked us to design their Upfront presentation to match their on-air brand. Using our CustomShow® presentation software, we were able to bring their characters to life inside each slide. The presentation included interactive nagivation and a wide selection of videos.

If your company uses Web meetings, you already know what would make them better: HD video, full-screen transitions between slides, mixing slides from different presentations, a preview of the next slide, no need to launch a separate application to host meetings, and lower cost than the competition. We’ve been hard at work making all of these things happen — right from CustomShow!

The new browser-based interface for CustomShow Web meetings

Here’s what makes our Web meetings exciting:

HD video: CustomShow now lets you present full-screen video to your audience over the Web.

Full-screen transitions between slides: Existing Web meeting software translates your PowerPoint slides into a low-quality experience that stutters and stalls. CustomShow Web meetings offer a high-quality experience that looks every bit as great as being in the same room.

Mixing slides from different presentations: CustomShow makes it easy to pull slides from multiple places into a single Web meeting. No more switching between applications or launching files while your audience watches.

Preview of the next slide: It’s easy to forget what’s coming next in the heat of the moment. CustomShow displays the next slide before your audience sees it, so you never have to wonder.

Single app: Part of what makes existing Web meeting software so frustrating is that it’s a separate application. CustomShow is your presentation software, and now it’s also your Web meeting software. There’s no difference, there’s nothing else to launch, and it works smoothly.

Less expensive than the competition: We’ve priced our Web meetings significantly below existing Web meeting products.

We’ll be posting more info soon, and please feel free to contact us immediately for more info.

Thank you to the Fitting Group, who is featuring our CustomShow presentation software in Challenger Brand News this week. We are indeed going up against Goliath in the form of Microsoft PowerPoint. The good news is that no one loves PowerPoint, everyone simply tolerates it.

As mentioned in the article, we’ve been able to convince major brands to switch to CustomShow. Our customers include “DIRECTV, CNN, Bravo, The New Yorker, A&E, ELLE, The Wall Street Journal and Dior. And that’s just the short list.”

Here’s what Challenger Brand News has to say about CustomShow:

Beyond being dazzling, CustomShow sports a number of boons. On the one hand, it allows control over the information being presented in a way that ensures that the company’s brand guidelines are consistent. But on the other, it allows quick and easy customization of presentations to permit flexibility.

More than anything, CustomShow is a presentation program for a world with a short attention span and high visual expectations.

And they don’t even mention our new Web meeting capability, which plays high-definition video smoothly. You can find the entire Challenger Brand article here.